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    Mariah Santos February 25th 2014 AP Language and Composition - Period 4 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Stanza I 3. a. Ominous - "only moving thing" is an eye. b. Detail - contrast of silent‚ white snow‚ and moving black eye. c. Eye is all seeing. Stanza II 3. a. Torn: targets the "three" choices like with the different "three minds" and "three blackbirds" b. Detail - Compares and contrasts "three minds" and "three blackbirds" then in a way ties it to one thing‚ "a tree." c.

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    Here’s Looking at You‚ Kid. Filmed and released in 1942 Casablanca‚ starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman‚ is a romantic drama set during World War II. The movie focuses on a man (Rick Blaine) torn between love and virtue and it is throughout the movie that he struggles to choose between his love for a woman (Ilsa Lund) and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband (Victor Lazlo) escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. Throughout the movie it becomes clear

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    Looking for Alaska by John Green is a narrative that reveals the death of Alaska Young. Miles “Pudge” Halter ‚ the protagonist is caring‚sweet‚ and a loving boy. There are several literary concepts that help construct this making it interesting. The literary concepts of point of view‚ conflicts and characterization create meaning. Therefore‚ readers can connect to these while reading whether it’s a connection to their personal life or the world.At the begining of “Looking for Alaska” we are introduced

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    From the moment we are put into our parents’ arms‚ they begin to shape our identity. Our appearance‚ thoughts and actions are developed from them and what they believe is “right” and “wrong.” However unfair as it may seem at times‚ everything done is based on their past experiences‚ the culture we are born into and ultimately done for our own well-being. “Never change who you are to please people”‚ “There is nothing you can’t do” and “We are proud of you no matter what” are three very common

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    Tuesday‚ October 30‚ 2012 Looking for Alibrandi By: Melina Marchette Looking for Alibrandi is the story of Josie Alibrandi’s experiences at school‚ and her relationships with friends and family during her last year at St Martha’s girls’ school. This is the year her father comes back into her life‚ the year she falls in love and discovers the secrets of her family’s past. Josie tells us the story of her struggles with her Italian-Australian identity and the highs and lows of teenage life. It’s

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said in The Little Prince‚ “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly”. To me‚ this quote means that someone can only see another person for who they really are by looking through their own heart. This quote is true because the way you see someone isn’t how they always are. When you look and judge someone through your heart‚ you clear your opinion of all your biases‚ preconceived notions‚ and beliefs about them. In the novels‚ To Kill A Mockingbird and

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    Imagine if your life choices were already made for you and you had no say in what was next. In the novel‚ Through the Looking Glass‚ Lewis Carroll demonstrates the ways in which chess shows a deterministic conception of life. In the book Carroll shows his belief that life is predetermined by fate‚ just like a game of chess. Through the Looking Glass is a sequel to Alice and Wonderland‚ but this time Alice goes through a mirror into this imaginary world. Each chapter in the book signifies one chess

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    Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Josephine Alibrandi is beginning a new school year as the vice-captain of St Martha’s school in Sydney. She promises to be good but already gets in trouble on the first day. Josie introduces herself to the reader as an Italian living in Australia. She lives with her mother‚ who had her before she was married‚ doesn’t know her father‚ and has a close relationship with both her mother and nonna (grandmother). When Josie arrives

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    Richard Dawkins main idea is that‚ we as ‘survival machines’ are designed to preserve and also designed by selfish genes (Dawkins‚1989). In the book he described selfishness as altruism and unconscious purposive behavior. This means that there is no thought behind a gene’s action is just genetic. He also describes selfishness as as a behaviour that increases another person’s survival of genes in one person at the expense of another (Dawkins‚1989). So therefore the genes behavior increases and/or

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    Mean girls and looking for alibrandi Today I will be doing a speech on looking for alibrandi and mean girls I will be focusing on the teenage adolesces I will be comparing the relationship differences between Regina Georges family and Josie alibrandi’s family and I will be also focusing on teen relationships. Regina’s family is very different from Josie’s family; Regina’s family is a typical American family laid back and Regina gets all the freedom that she desires in the movie Regina says

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